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AMD Radeon RX 5500M

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M is a graphics card released on October 7, 2019, built on the RDNA architecture. It has 1,408 shading units, 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 1.65 GHz and a 85 W board power rating. It scores 6,029 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6.

RDNANavi 14

10/10 key specs recorded · 62 facts

Depth: 47 recorded fields, 6 features, 5 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark, AMD.com Specifications and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 10 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark AMD.com Specifications PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)

Shading units

1,408cores

22 compute units

Memory

4 GB

GDDR6 · 128-bit

Boost clock

1.65 GHz

1.38 GHz base

Board power

85 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M scores 6,029 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 83.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #459), measured across 497 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 414.

PassMark G3D Mark

6,029

Rank #459
Faster than 83.1% of 2,658 GPUs
497 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 102 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 76.1% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 39 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 72% of 1,602 GPUs

DirectX 11 36 fps

reference: fastest recorded 362 fps · faster than 63.5% of 1,430 GPUs

DirectX 12 30 fps

reference: fastest recorded 213 fps · faster than 66.1% of 1,274 GPUs

GPU Compute 2,337 ops/s

reference: fastest recorded 26,591 ops/s · faster than 67.2% of 1,447 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the AMD Radeon RX 5500M averages DirectX 9 102 fps, DirectX 10 39 fps, DirectX 11 36 fps, DirectX 12 30 fps and GPU Compute 2,337 ops/s, across 497 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

Theoretical throughput

FP32 (single precision) 4.63 TFLOPS stated by AMD

FP16 (half precision) 9.26 TFLOPS stated by AMD

Pixel fill rate 52.6 GPixel/s stated by AMD

Texture fill rate 144.76 GTexel/s stated by AMD

AMD states a peak of FP32 (single precision) 4.63 TFLOPS, FP16 (half precision) 9.26 TFLOPS, Pixel fill rate 52.6 GPixel/s and Texture fill rate 144.76 GTexel/s for the AMD Radeon RX 5500M.

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x8

Max memory 4 GB

Core clock 1375 MHz

Memory clock 1750 MHz

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

Max TDP 85 W

First benchmarked 2020-03-21

Samples 497

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon RX 5500M states the PCIe 4.0 x8 interface, up to 4 GB of memory, a core clock of 1375 MHz, DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6, first benchmarked on 2020-03-21. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Graphics processor

Architecture RDNA

Codename Navi 14

Chip Not recorded

Process node Not recorded

Transistors 6,400 M

Die size 158 mm²

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M is based on the RDNA architecture, uses the Navi 14 graphics processor, contains 6,400 million transistors and has a die size of 158 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 1,408

Compute units 22

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 88

Render output units (ROPs) 32

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M has 1,408 shading units, 22 compute units, 88 texture mapping units and 32 render output units.

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the AMD Radeon RX 5500M.

Clock speeds

Base clock 1.38 GHz

Boost clock 1.65 GHz

Game clock 1.45 GHz

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M runs at a base clock of 1.38 GHz, boosts to 1.65 GHz and has a game clock of 1.45 GHz.

Memory

Size 4 GB

Type GDDR6

Bus width 128-bit

Bandwidth 224.0 GB/s

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR6 memory, uses a 128-bit memory bus and delivers 224.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M has a board power rating of 85 W and it connects over PCIe 4.0 x8.

Board power (TDP) 85 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 4.0 x8

Market

Launched October 7, 2019

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Laptop

Series Radeon RX

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M was released on October 7, 2019.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 6,029

PassMark G2D 414

Rank #459

Samples 497

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M supports DirectX 12 and OpenGL 4.6.

DirectX 12

OpenGL 4.6

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon RX 5500M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon RX 5500M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon RX 5500M.

Media engine

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M provides hardware encode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265) and hardware decode for H.264 (AVC) and HEVC (H.265).

Hardware video codec support of the AMD Radeon RX 5500M
Codec	Encode	Decode
H.264 (AVC)4K H.264: encode supported, decode supported	Supported	Supported
HEVC (H.265)	Supported	Supported

supported explicitly not supported not stated by the vendor

Not listed: AV1 and VP9. No source Feex holds states whether the AMD Radeon RX 5500M supports these codecs; that is silence, not a statement that they are unsupported.

Display outputs

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M offers outputs HDMI 4K60 Support.

Outputs HDMI 4K60 Support

Naming and aliases

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as AMD RadeonT RX 5500M, Radeon RX 5500M, AMD Radeon RX 5500M Series and AMD Radeon(TM) RX 5500M.

Other names (PassMark) AMD RadeonT RX 5500M; Radeon RX 5500M; AMD Radeon RX 5500M Series; AMD Radeon(TM) RX 5500M

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does the AMD Radeon RX 5500M have?

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M has 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 224.0 GB/s.

How much power does the AMD Radeon RX 5500M use and what power supply does it need?

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M has a board power rating of 85 W.

How fast is the AMD Radeon RX 5500M?

The AMD Radeon RX 5500M scores 6,029 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 83.1% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #459. In the PassMark DirectX 12 test it averages 30 fps.